Environmental Education
Shiva Ghaznavi; Saeed Yazdani; Hamed Rafiee
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Introduction: Introduction: The pastures of the country are one of the main sources of production and provide an important part of the fodder needed by livestock. In the Zagros region, these resources are very important. Also, due to high destruction in Lorestan province, grazing projects are of great ...
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Introduction: Introduction: The pastures of the country are one of the main sources of production and provide an important part of the fodder needed by livestock. In the Zagros region, these resources are very important. Also, due to high destruction in Lorestan province, grazing projects are of great importance in this province. Therefore, due to the importance of protecting natural resources, developing strategies for the protection and exploitation of these resources and identifying the components hindering participation are felt as a fundamental necessity. People's participation in any project guarantees the implementation and sustainability of that project. This issue is more important in the protection of natural resources, because issues related to the environment and natural resources are intertwined with the lives of communities, and the success of any kind of program will require the participation of these communities.Materials and Methods: The main problem faced by the planners of the General Department of Natural Resources and Watershed Management of Lorestan province is the non-participation of pastoralists in the implementation of pastoral plans, considering their effective role in maintaining and revitalizing pastures, which has made such programs unsuccessful. Is. Therefore, the main goal of this research is to investigate the causes of the non-participation of the users with an emphasis on education from the point of view of experts in this province. The collection of data and information in this research was done through 20 questionnaires from experts of the whole province of Lorestan) and in order to analyze the data of this study, Spss21 and Expert Choice11 software were used.Results: The results showed that structural, managerial, and economic barriers are three important factors preventing non-participation. The summary of the results of this research shows that in order to improve the conditions of pastures with the approach of more participation of the users for the studied area and similar areas, the abilities and opinions of the users and experts should be used. Considering the position that the village and the villagers have in the dynamics of the country's economy, such as helping the economic growth, controlling the inflation rate, increasing the employment rate and activity, they can be a suitable platform for agricultural, livestock, industrial and service products, preserving the environment and security, and cultural norms. and social, to provide security and border guarding. Therefore, drawing a road map that determines the role of villages in the planning system of the country is of special importance. Meanwhile, training is always considered as a sure way to improve performance quality and solve management problems, and its lack is one of the basic issues. Training is a fundamental task for better management and a continuous and permanent process. The results also showed that the lack of training is one of the important factors preventing the participation of users. Therefore, by implementing educational programs, holding gatherings and exhibitions, this participation can be increased and improve pastures.Discussion: The summary of the results of this research shows that in order to improve the conditions of pastures with the approach of more participation of the users for the study area and similar areas, the capabilities and opinions of the users and experts should be used in order to prepare, plan and implement plans based on their needs, priorities and desires. Pasture management should be provided and, in the future, we can witness the improvement of pasture management as well as the protection, modification and revival of pastures along with the increase of livestock production with the least problems at the level of any customary system as economic-social units.
Environmental Education
Manijeh Ahmadi; Sepideh Housini
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Introduction: Human's continuous encroachment on the environment and indiscriminate harvesting and improper use of natural resources have caused irreparable damage to the environment. Throughout their lives, humans have disturbed the balance and harmony of the environment with their interference and ...
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Introduction: Human's continuous encroachment on the environment and indiscriminate harvesting and improper use of natural resources have caused irreparable damage to the environment. Throughout their lives, humans have disturbed the balance and harmony of the environment with their interference and negative effects on the regular rules of nature, and it has progressed to the point where the human society is faced with a multitude of environmental problems. Therefore, the recognition of adverse environmental behaviors, their management and control, is the foundation of education that should be considered by curriculum planners through content and textbooks from the very beginning of formal education. One of the effective ways in this matter is teaching environmental concepts in elementary school. Environmental education through conceptualization in textbooks can be a vital tool to deal with environmental problems. Therefore, the purpose of the research; The analysis of environmental literacy concepts in elementary school science books is based on the national curriculum.Materials and Methods: The research method is descriptive and content analysis type. The statistical population included the experimental science books of elementary school, which due to the nature of the subject, sampling was not done and all the statistical population was investigated. The data collection tool was the content analysis list made by the researcher, which was made with the judgment of experts. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics.Results: The results of the research showed that in the experimental science books of elementary school; Based on the components of environmental literacy (water consumption management, electricity consumption management, gas consumption management, waste management, forest conservation, animal conservation); The most attention in the first and third grades; water consumption management (25.79 and 35.19 percent), second grade; waste management (34.69 percent), fourth, fifth and sixth grades; forest preservation (22.64, 22.15 and 31.91 percent). Also, attention to environmental elements in the entire primary period (with frequency of 987), the most attention is related to the fifth-grade experimental science book with 21.47 percent and the least attention is related to the sixth grade with 14.28 percent. On the other hand, based on prioritization; The most attention of experimental science textbooks in elementary school was on water consumption management (with 217 frequency) and the least attention was on gas consumption management (with 115 frequency).Discussion: Environmental concepts do not have a favorable position in experimental science books of elementary school. Considering the environmental problems in the country, it was suggested to review the content of experimental science textbooks to pay more attention to environmental components and to include skill-oriented environmental content in the first to third grades and research-oriented content in the fourth to sixth grades, Vertical and horizontal organization in the design of environmental content of experimental science textbooks and balanced distribution of content in the first to sixth grade should be observed, More content on the topic of waste should be included in the content of elementary school textbooks, especially the topic of waste management in the fifth and sixth grade, More content should be devoted to the issue of energy and centrality of gas consumption in the third and fourth grade books, Content related to forest and animal conservation should be included in all the elementary grades.
Environmental Education
Fateme Pourghasem; Amirhossein Alibaygi; Abdolhamid Papazan
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This qualitative research was conducted with the aim of investigating the challenges of rural women's environmental literacy extension in Kermanshah province. The study population consisted of experts’ environment, natural resources, agricultural extension and nongovernmental organizations in Kermanshah ...
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This qualitative research was conducted with the aim of investigating the challenges of rural women's environmental literacy extension in Kermanshah province. The study population consisted of experts’ environment, natural resources, agricultural extension and nongovernmental organizations in Kermanshah province. Samples were selected using purposeful and criterion sampling method. Content analysis of data showed that the lack of systematic, comprehensive and appropriate planning with context, the lack of accountability and responsibility for environmental issues, the lack of between and within sections communication, the lack of priority of rural women in environmental education, problems related to the provision of skilled force and adequate funding for education, especially for women's education, inefficient policies and organizational structure and the lack of environmental perspectives has led to the lack of planning and proper implementation of programs and environmental education, especially for women. The results of this study can help planners to improve the level of environmental education for rural women.
Environmental Education
Mahboubeh Soleimanpour Imran; Majid Feyz Arefi; Shima Mohammadzadeh; Hamidreza Soodagar
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of citizenship education on social responsibility, social skills and environmental skills of Bojnourd municipality employees in 2018. The present study is an applied research and the method is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test and control ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of citizenship education on social responsibility, social skills and environmental skills of Bojnourd municipality employees in 2018. The present study is an applied research and the method is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test and control group design. The statistical population is all 810 employees working in Bojnourd municipality and 60 employees were selected through simple random sampling. They were divided into two groups of 30 people, experimental and control group. Then, pretest was taken from both groups, and after 12 sessions of citizenship education for the experimental group, post-test was taken from both groups. For collecting pre-test and post-test data, Matson's social skills (1983), Imamqoli environmental behavior (2011) and accountability subscale NEO's five personality traits (1985) questionnaires were used. The validity of the questionnaires was of a formal and content type approved by the professors and experts. The reliability of Matson's social skills questionnaire was 0.859, the environmental behavior questionnaire 0.899 and the NEO five-personality trait questionnaire was 0.821. To analyze the collected data, descriptive statistics (frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (confirmatory factor analysis) and SPSS 22 and PLS 3 software were used. Comparison of pre-test and post-test in the control group showed that there was no significant change in the data. By comparing the pre-test and post-test in the experimental group, the change of each factor was determined that all three variables had a more factor load in the post-test state. According to the results of factor analysis in the post-test stage on the experimental group, citizenship education had the greatest impact on social responsibility.
Environmental Education
Volume 1, Issue 57 , January 0, , Pages 19-26
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This study is done in order to educational needs assessment of teachers in field schools of Ahvaz Environmental Protection. Study is descriptive-survey. Samples includes 108 teachers (54men and 54women) which were selected random and based on Morgan table. Tools Questionnaire of researcher was made in ...
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This study is done in order to educational needs assessment of teachers in field schools of Ahvaz Environmental Protection. Study is descriptive-survey. Samples includes 108 teachers (54men and 54women) which were selected random and based on Morgan table. Tools Questionnaire of researcher was made in environment field which was made by shabina (2009). Analysis of data was done by SPSS software. Significant difference between variables was used t-test and analyse variance (ANOVA) and relationship between variables Pearson correlation. Results of study showed that environmental information of teachers was average and in biodiversity, energy and natural resources parts was weak, also there is not significant difference between environmental information and gender of teachers however difference between field of study and environmental information of teachers is significant. There is not relationship between educations with environmental education of them.
Environmental Education
Mahboubeh SoleymanPourOmran; Alireza Nouri
Volume 4, Issue 65 , January 0, , Pages 25-36
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The purpose of this research is to identify the relationship between green management and managers and assistans' bioenvironmental behaviors in junior high school of Esfrayen on1393 – 94. This research applies descriptive scrolling and correlation sorting. Managers and their assistants of junior ...
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The purpose of this research is to identify the relationship between green management and managers and assistans' bioenvironmental behaviors in junior high school of Esfrayen on1393 – 94. This research applies descriptive scrolling and correlation sorting. Managers and their assistants of junior high school in Esfarayen, 200 people, constitute the statistical society of this study.Sample size was randomely chosen based on Morgan–Chart (127 out of 200). A researcher made questioner which has 49 items is used for green management variable, and a standard questioner of Salehi and Salehi Omran (1388) which has 41 items, is used for bioenvironmental behavior. The reliability of the questionnaires was accepted by professors, and Chronbakh's alpha ratio was used to estimate the consistency of the questioners. Consistency of first questioner was 0/95 and second one was 0/97. Collected data using descriptive statistic exams and illustrative statistics were used to study the relationship between hypotheses of the research. Research findings indicate that there is a meaningful relationship between green management and bioenvironmental behavior of managers and their assistants in junior high school of Esfarayen (correlation coefficient of 0/694 and level of meaningfullness of %5), but there is not a meaningful relationship between energy index and bioenvironmental behavior of managers and their assistants in junior high school of Esfarayen.Conclusion: if we increase green management and different aspects of it among managers and their assistants of junior high school of Esfarayen, we can improve bioenvironmental behavior.
Environmental Education
Volume 1, Issue 57 , January 0, , Pages 47-56
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The environment watch assistance course (Mohit-Yar) was held with the aim of enhancing of environmental knowledge of primary students by the department of environment. The main purpose of this study was to the analysis of Mohit-Yar courses in the Ahvaz city. The present study is experimental and practical. ...
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The environment watch assistance course (Mohit-Yar) was held with the aim of enhancing of environmental knowledge of primary students by the department of environment. The main purpose of this study was to the analysis of Mohit-Yar courses in the Ahvaz city. The present study is experimental and practical. All of the primary students were considered as the statistical population which a sample of 1325 students from 2 groups of trained and untrained (control group) was selected randomly. The present study has been done in two separate phase. The first phase was done with the purpose of determining overall educational situation and investigation of educational content. In the second phase investigated the environment knowledge of students with using researcher-made questionnaire on the basis of educational content. The second phase data were analyzed using SPSS (V20). The results showed that between environment knowledge means of the control group and trained group there is a significant difference. The result of chi-square test confirmed the relationship between environmental levels of knowledge and experimental groups, which indicating the high success of the training course on the enhancing of the environmental knowledge level of primary school students.
Environmental Education
Mohammad Babaei; Assadollah Mehrara; Mehrdad Matani; Mohammad Reza Bagherzadeh
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The concept of clean environment is one of the most important and significant macro principles in the policy of the whole country. This is especially important among countries with large oil and gas capital (which is one of the major polluters of the environment). Because today, the human and economic ...
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The concept of clean environment is one of the most important and significant macro principles in the policy of the whole country. This is especially important among countries with large oil and gas capital (which is one of the major polluters of the environment). Because today, the human and economic costs of achieving a sustainable environment are estimated at billions of dollars. Due to its oil and gas industry, Iran is one of the countries that pays special attention to the environment and pollutants from its activities and has always sought to design and apply various models and models to reduce oil and gas pollutants. In this article, the authors have devoted their efforts to designing an environmental model of sustainable development in the Iranian gas industry. The combined research method is based on mixed exploratory research (qualitative-quantitative). The statistical population of the present article is based on 1080 people and using the snowball method to achieve theoretical saturation with 25 experts, in-depth interviews were conducted and in a quantitative part, to measure the model, a researcher-made questionnaire by cluster sampling method Relative was distributed among 285 samples. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by face and content method and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha method. Data were analyzed by exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis with SPSS and AMOS software. The results of the qualitative section indicate that the environmental model of sustainable development has 15 dimensions in terms of causal conditions (1. service mission, 2. safety and health requirements, 3. social responsibility), underlying conditions (4. education and learning, 5 Culture building, 6. Attitudes and knowledge of managers), intervention conditions (7. Contractors, 8. Technical facilities and equipment, 9. Technology and technical operations), strategy (10. Medium and long-term policies of the Ministry of Energy, 11. Supervision and Continuous evaluation of project progress is 12. Customer Consumption Management Programs, 13. Residual Pollution Management Programs) and Outcome (14. Improving the Environmental Performance of the Gas Company and 15. Moving Towards Sustainable Development). The results of the quantitative section showed that all dimensions of the research paradigm model were confirmed.
Environmental Education
Mohammad Keshavarz; Hossein Damghanian; Seyyed Abbas Ebrahimi; Abbasali Rastegar
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of environmentally transformational leadership, spiritual leadership and Environmental passion of employees on creating environmental behavior in the organization. This study was applied in a descriptive and it was done with surveyed manner. The statistical ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of environmentally transformational leadership, spiritual leadership and Environmental passion of employees on creating environmental behavior in the organization. This study was applied in a descriptive and it was done with surveyed manner. The statistical sample in this study was 212 employees of Shiraz municipality who were selected through available sampling method. Partial least squares method and Smart PLS2 software were used for data analysis. Convergent validity was used to assess the validity and Cronbach's alpha was used to fit the reliability and its coefficient was greater than 0.7 for all research constructs. The results show environmentally transformational leadership and spiritual leadership with a path coefficient (0.384) and (0.579) has a positive and significant effect on Environmental passion. The results confirmed the positive and significant effect of Environmental passion and proenvironmental behavior of employees with a path coefficient (0.613) and a significant coefficient (7.033). It also mediates Environmental passion in the organization of the relationship between environmentally transformational leadership and environmental behavior of employees, but does not mediate the relationship between spiritual leadership and proenvironmental behavior of employees. Based on the findings, it is suggested that municipality managers use transformational and spiritual leadership styles to control the behavior of their employees and thus create more Environmental enthusiasm for the presentation of environmental behaviors.